London The Old Vic Theatre – Julius Ceasar – 1920

About this Julius Caesar theatre programme

An original theatre programme for Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar at The Old Vic Theatre, London, from 1920. The cast includes Neil Curtis, E H Paterson, Maxwell Wray, Charles Warburton, Frederick Keen, Norman Shelly and Stockwell Hawkins. Under Lilian Baylis the Old Vic became the people’s home of Shakespeare, offering the classics at low prices, and programmes from this era are treasured theatre memorabilia and a key part of any collection of old theatre programmes.

Condition: V Good, cfld, lcr, a few tiny edge ni's (what the codes mean)

Did you know?

• The Old Vic opened in 1818 as the Royal Coburg Theatre and was renamed the Royal Victoria in 1833.
• In 1923 the Old Vic completed staging every play in Shakespeare’s First Folio, the first theatre to do so.
• Norman Shelley later became famous as a radio actor, notably as Colonel Danby in The Archers.